Sales tax is not so simple. There are products that are not subject to sales tax. There are products that are subject to some taxes but not others, products that are subject to additional taxation, products that are subject to sales tax only under certain conditions (frozen meal - no sales tax; frozen meal heated up in the store - sales tax). Then there are outright mistakes where something is not taxed correctly. The 7.375% you quote is not a hard and fast "you can multiply what you buy by this and get your tax due." kind of rule.

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Heh. Simpler, but how do you keep your hordes of tax accountants fed then? Tell me that? Without a complex system of taxation, you can't possibly manage to feed and clothe all those people who have no real skills other than the ability to understand tens of thousands of pages of complex tax code!

Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."

Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it."Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"

Rkolter wrote:Heh. Simpler, but how do you keep your hordes of tax accountants fed then? Tell me that? Without a complex system of taxation, you can't possibly manage to feed and clothe all those people who have no real skills other than the ability to understand tens of thousands of pages of complex tax code!

Rkolter 1, bullshit economics 0. Although I highly doubt that the IRS agents actually understand their own tax code anyways.

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Rkolter wrote:Heh. Simpler, but how do you keep your hordes of tax accountants fed then? Tell me that? Without a complex system of taxation, you can't possibly manage to feed and clothe all those people who have no real skills other than the ability to understand tens of thousands of pages of complex tax code!

Tax accountants are but a tiny fragments of enormous bureaucratic apparatus consisting largely of someone's relatives that our country cherishes. A kind of folks who are allowed to take a three-hour break in the middle of work day in order to watch the tennis match (tennis is our latest craze), even though I may have documents that have to be urgently processed. Not to mention that, despite ubiquitousness of computers, you still can't get your stuff done any faster than you did in 1985.

Rkolter wrote:Heh. Simpler, but how do you keep your hordes of tax accountants fed then? Tell me that? Without a complex system of taxation, you can't possibly manage to feed and clothe all those people who have no real skills other than the ability to understand tens of thousands of pages of complex tax code!

Tax accountants are but a tiny fragments of enormous bureaucratic apparatus consisting largely of someone's relatives that our country cherishes. A kind of folks who are allowed to take a three-hour break in the middle of work day in order to watch the tennis match (tennis is our latest craze), even though I may have documents that have to be urgently processed. Not to mention that, despite ubiquitousness of computers, you still can't get your stuff done any faster than you did in 1985.

Some stuff you can. There's software that lets you submit your taxes online.

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